Art is collective. Always, it has a tradition behind it.

I once asked a young dissertation writer whether her suddenly grayed hair was due to ill health or personal tragedy; she answered: “It was the footnotes”.

There are plenty of images of women in science fiction. There are hardly any women.

Minority art, vernacular art, is marginal art. Only on the margins does growth occur.

To die on a dying Earth - I'd live, if only to weep

Ignorance is not bad faith. But persistence in ignorance is.

As my mother once said: The boys throw stones at the frog in jest. But the frogs die in earnest.

To act in a way both sexist and racist, to maintain one's class privilege, it is only necessary to act in the customary, ordinary, usual, even polite manner.

The trouble with men is that they have limited minds. That's the trouble with women, too.

How withered away one can be from a life of unremitting toil.

I'm not a girl. I'm a genius.

Beauty is one of the rare things which does not lead to doubt of God.

Be gentle with othersFor many hurt though you see it notSome wounds are invisible yet deepKhoiSan Book of Wisdom

Where faith costs nothing, faith loses respect, even to those who possess it.

In the night of death hope sees a star and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing.

Seem like a lot of people wear shoes they can't walk in.

I make decisions for my life, not the other way around. Besides, when you have a kid, you must weigh everything against time with your child.

There is a chalk outline slowly being drawn around common sense and most people can't identify the victim.

I remember looking at books when I was in high school, but I don't think I really stood in front of a genuine painting or sculpture until I was out of high school.

The consumer today is the victim of the manufacturer who launches on him a regiment of products for which he must make room in his soul.

A 5 letter word for happiness: MONEY.